Chairperson of Housing Committee of the Egyptian Parliament Moatz Mahmoud suggested that the country could allow Arab citizens to purchase the Egyptian citizenship as a way to overcome the financial crisis and dollar shortage Egypt faces, Parlmany reported Saturday.

The total number of Arab citizens who applied for acquiring the Egyptian national reached 50,000 Arabs. The proposal was rejected by other parliamentarians.

An Egyptian delegation, which includes Minister of Aviation Sherif Fathy, Attorney-General Nabil Sadek, and chairperson of Egyptian investigative committee Ayman al-Moqadem, arrived Saturday in Cairo, after 5-day visit to Moscow where they discussed the outcomes of Egyptian investigations into the Russian passenger plane that crashed in Central Sinai in late October 2015, Youm7 reported official from the Cairo International Airport.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said a new delegation of Russian aviation experts are set to visit Egypt to inspect airport security in September.

On Oct., 31, the Airbus A321, operated by the Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashed a few minutes after it took off from Sharm el-Sheikh airport killing all 224 people on board. Following the incident, Russia imposed a travel ban on Egypt and banned EgyptAir flights go Enter is airspace; other European countries including Britain imposed travel ban on flights going to Sharm el-Sheikh.

23 militant suspects killed by military in N. Sinai

Military forces have killed a total of 32 militant suspects in restive North Sinai in a campaign launched by the Egyptian Army over the past few months to get rid of “terrorist” elements, Youm7 reported security officials Saturday.

In mid July, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi extended the current state of emergency in parts of North Sinai for an additional three months. The state of emergency was first imposed under Sisi in October 2014 following an attack that killed over 30 soldiers. It has since been extended four times.

Parliament’s fact-finding committee, concerned to probe into allegations of wheat procurement corruption, will write its report, and then to refer it to the parliament, Youm7 reported the committee chairperson Magdy Malak Saturday. He noted that corruption cases caused state to lose a total 560 million EGP.